Loom-temple.



No. 692,087. Patented `Jan; 28, |902.

E. S. STIMPSN.

LOOM TEMPLE. (App-lietion led O'ct. 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD S. STIMPSON, OF HOPDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF. HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORA- TION OF MAINE.

LOOM-TEM PLE.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 0. 692,087, dated January 28, 1902. Application filed October '7, 1901. SeraTNO. 77,853. (No model.)

.T0 @ZZ whom t may concern.-

` Be it known that I, EDWARD S. STIMPsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hopedale, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loom-Temples, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to loom-tem ples particularly adapted for use in automatic looms, the temple being provided with a parting device to part the filling-thread outside of the selva-ge of the cloth, such a temple being shown in United States Patent No. 585,465, dated June 29, 1897. Sometimes the shuttle Will be stopped in its flight in such position that as the lay beats up the parting device will strike the shuttle and either or both are apt to be damaged.

Thepresent invention has for its object the production of means for protecting the shuttle when improperly positioned from injury by the thread-parting device of a loom-temple of the general type referred to and to pro-. tect the thread-parter itself from being in- Y jured by engagement with the shuttle.

The novel features of the invention will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure l is a sectional view of a sufficient portion of a loom to be understood with one embodiment of the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged outer side elevation of the temple shown in Fig. lin normal position. Fig. 3 is a top or plan view, partly broken out, of the loom-temple and protective means for the thread-parting device. Fig. 4'is a front elevation of the temple; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view, detached, of the protector.

The lay A3, breast-beam A40, filling-feeder F, Fig. 1, are substantially as in United States Patent No. 529,940, and the temple-stand A, slide-bar B, having the pod B', slotted at a to receive a steel blade a', the cap B2, heel B3, attached to the pod, the slotted ear b on the shank B, and the thread parter or cutter C inserted in the slotted portion of the pod and ear are and may be all as in Patent No. 585,465, referred to, the front end of the parter being slotted at 2 to straddlc theblade and present Atwo arms c/ c2, Fig. 3, each having a vates it, as in Figs. l and 4, the coil of the spring being mountedV on a lateral stud dzon the bar B, the free end cl3 of the spring engaging a lug c5 on the depending heel c4 of the cutter or parter C, the other end 3 of the spring bearing against a shoulder 2O on the bar. As the lay beats up it engages the heel c4 and moves the parter C toward the front of the loom, at the same time depressing its hooked end c3, so that a filling end will be caught and drawn across the blade a', severing-the thread, as in PatentNo. 585,465, before the heel B3 is engaged by the lay, the spring d returning the parter to normal position as the lay moves back. It sometimes 4happens that the shuttle is-stopped in its Hight opposite the temple, so that on the beatup of the lay the projecting end of the parter, of small cross-section, will engage and stab or break the shuttle, the impact frequently acting to bend or otherwise injure the parter. To obviate this, lhave devised a protector, one form of `which is shown separately in Fig. 5, said protector consisting of an armf, having one end f downturned and fulcrumed on a stud c1", extended laterally from the cutter C near the upper end of the heel, so that the arm is adjacent the outer end of the pod and cap of the temple. The free upper end of the arm f is bent laterally, as at f2, and provided with an enlarged head f3, shown as parallel to the arm f and extended backward and entering a recess L15 in the pod, the bottom ofl but if the shuttle is stopped opposite the temc ICO ' carried by the temple and adjacent the eX- lay completes its forward movement, such movement of the cutter keeping its hooked end out of contact with the shuttle. The protector thus acts as a safety-guard or fender for the shuttle and also for the parting device, preventing engagement of the latter with and consequentinj ury tothe improperlypositioned shuttle.

The precise construction and arrangement herein shown may be modied or changed in various particulars Without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my inventionfwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A loom-temple having a blade and provided with a coperating sliding thread-cutter, actuated by a moving part of the loom, and a protector operatively connected with and to retract the sliding cutter under abnormal conditions.

2. In a loom, a temple provided with a thread-parter, actuating means therefor operated by a moving part of the loom, and means Operated by the shuttle when improperly positioned, to eect movement of and thereby prevent the thread-partei' from accidentally engaging the shuttle.

3. A loom-temple provided with a relatively movable thread-parter having a heel and a normally exposed blade, means to engage the heel and actuate the parter, and a protector posed portion of thethread-parter, and Operl atively connected with the heel, to move the latter and retract the blade when said protector is engaged by an improperly-positioned shuttle.

f4. In a loom, a temple provided with a thread-parter including a spring-controlled sliding member having a hooked end to engage the thread, means to actuate the parter in opposition toits spring, and a protector operatively connected with the said sliding member and having its free end adjacent the hooked end thereof, impact of the protector with an improperly-positioned shuttle operating to retract the said hooked member and prevent injury to the shuttle or saidmember.

5. A loom-temple provided with a blade and a coperating, spring-controlled sliding cutter having a hooked end to engage the thread,meanstoeffectcoperation Ot'theblade and cutter by retraction of the latter, to part the thread, and a protector pivotally connected with the cutter and having its free end adjacent the hooked end thereof, to retract the cutter by Or through engagement ot` the protector with an improperly-positioned shuttle.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence Ot two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD s. srIMPsON.

Witnesses:

GEORGE Oris DEAPEE, ERNEST W. WOOD. 

